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Sts. Marana and Cyra of Beroea
February 28, Saints


Source: Catholicsaints.info



Roman Martyrology: The commemoration of saints Marana and Cyra, virgins, who lived at Beroa in Syria in a narrow and enclosed place with no roof, wanting to possess no home at all, observing silence and accepting necessary food through a small opening in the wall.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

They were holy women of Beroea in Syria who acquired a small house outside of town and immured themselves in it, living a life of extreme asceticism and self-mortification.  They received food and wake-up calls from devoted maidservants for whom they erected a smaller, attached house and with whom Marana conversed through a communicating window (Cyra was never heard to speak).  From Beroea Marana and Cyra undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and another to the tomb of St. Thecla in Isaurian Seleucia (today's Silifke in Turkey), going entirely without eating while en route and breaking their fast only when they had reached their destinations.  Thus far Theodoret, whose portrait of these hermits presents them as still living at the time of his writing (early 440s).

 








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